The house at IX.6.5 is linked to house IX.6.4 by doorway
from area “o” in peristyle 3 into room “z”.

The atrium, paved with lavapesto and with remains of
inscriptions in white tesserae in its flooring, (near the tufa impluvium on its
western side towards the entrance corridor).

Three rooms were situated on each side of the atrium, “b”, “c”,
“d” on the north, and “I”, “k”, “i” on the south.

To the west of the atrium were the two large triclinia “a”
and “m”.

Rooms “d” and “i” were initially the alae then transformed,
the one with the addition of a wall towards the atrium and the other with the addition
of the stairs to the upper floor.

The peristyle was entered from the tablinum “g”.

The small room “e”, the corridor “f” and the oecus “h” also
all opened onto the peristyle.

The rooms “n” and “o”, closed by thin partitions, were not
preserved but were well recognizable at the time of the excavation by the traces
in the floor. The poor plastering of the walls of the peristyle in simple Opus
signinum, and the possibility to access it directly from posticum IX.6.7, made
the archaeologists think that an industrial or commercial activity had been carried
out in here, at least in the last period of its use; the remains of a previous well-refined
preparatory plaster in the southern arm, and speckled to make the final
decoration adhere, indicated a residential use at an earlier stage.

The eastern rooms, the kitchen “p” with hearth and a
basin/tub, the latrine “q”, the cupboards/storerooms “r” and “s” are all
described in IX.6.7.

Rooms “v”, “w”, “x”, “y”, and “z” and a’ to e’ on the plan,
are all described in IX.6.4.

According to Mau, “preserved near the impluvium were the remains
of an ancient pavement. In the front edge, in the more recent flooring, one
could read the word HELLEN, made from white stones: to read it you must stand
on the side of the impluvium. Another inscription made in the same way was in
the same pavement along the front edge of the atrium; it began near the
south-west corner and finished towards the north of the entrance
corridor.”

It was published in Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1878,
p.322, and said the above.

According to PPM “found near to the impluvium on its western
side were the remains of a very ancient floor, in this floor and towards the
western edge of the impluvium and near the vestibule were seen two
inscriptions. These were no longer visible at the time of Pernice (1938)”.

IX.6.5 Pompeii. Detail of decorated floor in entrance fauces
1.

Photographed 1970-79 by Günther Einhorn, picture courtesy of
his son Ralf Einhorn.

IX.6.5 Pompeii. May 2005. Looking east through corridor “f”,
from atrium towards peristyle, on north side of tablinum.

According to Mau, this corridor had rough walls, it was
closed on the front side by a door with two shutters, of which the hinges and
the two holes for the two bolts remained, whilst on the rear side there was no
trace of a door.